Human Resources (HR) reports directly to the Director of the CIA and oversees all activities necessary to support and shape the future of the Agency’s workforce. Five main business areas drive our mission activities:

 
Recruitment and Retention Center: Coordinates recruitment initiatives and monitors hiring needs and metrics to meet CIA mission requirements. The Recruitment and Retention Center aims to:

• Recruit and hire the most highly qualified and diverse men and women to ensure a workforce with a broad range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, language expertise, and educational experiences

• Establish and foster productive partnerships nationwide with colleges, universities, professional networks, and organizations that are key sources of top talent
• Interact with minority affinity groups to establish long-term relationships and strategies for recruiting candidates
• Reach a nationwide audience of competitive candidates for career opportunities through innovative advertising and marketing

Corporate HR Programs: Provides subject matter expertise in compensation, performance management, policy, and data interpretation in support of the many HR challenges facing senior leadership at the CIA. Key initiatives include: providing support to the Agency's future transition to a pay for performance system; conducting compensation and retention studies to attract and retain a talented workforce; conducting job and occupational analysis; developing promotion and selection criteria; developing policies in support of the Agency's strategic direction; and conducting analysis in support of workforce planning.

Leadership Development Initiative: Emphasizes the development of today’s and tomorrow’s leaders at all levels of the Agency through diverse and challenging assignments, succession planning, leadership performance assessments, and personalized feedback for continual learning and growth.

Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI): Captures, promotes, and provides insights of the CIA’s history to inform the decisions and meet the expectations of the Intelligence Community. CSI serves as the Agency’s Lessons Learned Center and leverages its primary, "think tank" role to pursue an array of other important activities:

• Provide historical reference services for the office of the Director of the CIA to include publishing and producing monographs on Agency history and the history of intelligence to promote public understanding
• Sponsor conferences that broaden understanding of the intelligence profession and the CIA’s history
• Administer academic outreach activities at colleges and universities
• Promote greater understanding of foreign intelligence and national security subjects through the Officer in Residence Program that affords Agency Intelligence Officers the opportunity to serve as faculty members at academic institutions
• Maintain the Agency Museum that houses artifacts and tools used by men and women serving in various aspects of espionage that illustrates the history of US intelligence
• Encourage employees to create an environment for effective collaboration within the CIA to promote a Corporate Culture and it’s role in fostering development

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CIA University: Provides centralized career-long learning opportunities for CIA employees to equip them with the shared values, commitment to mission, knowledge, and excellence in intelligence tradecraft and leadership needed to accomplish extraordinary tasks in service of our nation. CIA University offers training and educational opportunities to enable our workforce to develop new knowledge and skills and to gain from lessons learned by others in performing our unique and difficult mission. CIA University is about weaving together values, tradition, philosophy, and skills in professional development programs that serve all our employees throughout their careers; and developing employees committed to preserving our national security.